Etherboot/gPXE Wiki

gPXE is an open source (GPL) network bootloader. It provides a direct replacement for proprietary PXE ROMs, with many extra features such as DNS, HTTP, iSCSI, etc. Take a look at our Screenshots page and the HowTo Guides for some ideas of what we can do, and grab the code from our Download page.

gPXE evolved from Etherboot, and is maintained by the Etherboot project.

Here you will find various information about the Etherboot Project, and a repository of useful contributions from people who use Etherboot and gPXE. We hope you find this information useful.

We are always looking for new people to help us improve our projects. We need people who can program, write/edit documentation, update websites, and provide help on our Etherboot-Discuss and Etherboot-Developers mailing lists and our IRC channel, #etherboot on irc.freenode.net.

New commands: iwstat and iwlist for wireless management. New drivers: skge
and myri10ge. WEP, WPA, and WPA2 wireless encryption support. New settings
variables: "netX" for last opened netdev and "netX/busid" for network device
bus ID. New special image types: .hrom and .xrom to work around BIOS
limitations.

Google Tech Talk Video

Marty Connor, Michael Brown, and H. Peter Anvin gave a Google Tech talk recently at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. We highlighted the new features of gPXE, PXELINUX, and how we have advanced the state of the art in network booting.